गुप्त अभिलेख संग्रह (जे. एफ. फ्लीट - गुप्त सम्राटों एवं परवर्ती नरेशों के ऐतिहासिक पाषाण व ताम्रलेख)

THE GUPTA INSCRIPTIONS; No. 39, PLATE XXV. 173
in it is issued from his camp at the town of Ânandapura. It is dated, both in words and
in numerical symbols, in the year four hundred and forty-seven (A.D. 766-67), on the fifth
lunar day of the bright fortnight of the month Jyeshṭha (May-June). It is a non-sectarian
inscription; the object of it being simply to record the grant, by Śîlâditya VII. himself,
to a Brâhmaṇ, for the maintenance of the five great sacrifices and other rites, of the village
of Mahilabali or Mahilâbalî in the Uppalahêṭa pathaka¹ in the Khêṭaka âhâra.²
Of the places mentioned in this grant, Khêṭaka is of course the modern Khêḍâ
or Kaira³ itself. Uppalahêṭa is evidently the modern Uplêṭ or Uplêṭâ, in the Ṭhâsrâ
Tâlukâ, about thirty-five miles almost due east of Kaira. And Ânandapura must be
the modern Ânand, the chief town of the Ânand Tâlukâ, about twenty-one miles south-
east of Kaira.
TEXT.⁴
First Plate.
1 Ôm Svasti Śrîmad-Ânandapura-sam[â*]vasita-jayaskandhâvârê⁵ prasabha-
praṇat-âmitrâṇâṁ Maitrakâṇâm-atula-bala-sampanna-maṇḍalâbhô[ga-
saṁsa]kta-saṁprahâra-śata-labdha-pratâpâ-
2 t=pratâp-ôpanata-dâna-mân-ârjjav-ôpârjjit-ânurâgâd=anuraktâ⁶-maulabhṛitaḥ⁷-śrêṇî-
bal-âvâpta-râjya-śriyaḥ paramamâhêśvaraḥ⁸-śrî-Bhaṭârkkâd=a(â)vyava-
chchinna-vaṁśân=mâ-
3 tâpitṛi-charaṇâravinda-praṇati-pravivikt-âśêsha-kalmashaḥ śaiśavât=prabhṛiti
khaḍga-dvitîyaḥ⁹-bâhur=êva samada-para-gaja-ghaṭ-âsph[ô]ṭana-prakâśita-
[sattva-ni]kashaḥ tat-p[r*]a-
4 [bhâ]va-praṇat-ârâti-chûḍâra[t*]na-prabhâ-sa[ṁ*]sakta-pâda-nakha-raśmi-saṁhatiḥ
sakala-smṛiti-praṇîti(ta)-mârggah¹⁰-samyak-kriyâ-pâlanaḥ¹¹-prajâ-hṛidaya-
raṁjanâ[d=a*]nvarttha-râja-śab[d]ô rûpa-kâ-
5 nti-sthai[r*]yya-gâmbhîryya-buddhi-sampadbhiḥ Smara-śaś[â]ṅk-âdrirâj-
ôda(da)dhi-triâ(tri)daśagusa(ru)-Dhanêśân=atiśâyanaḥ śaraṇâgat-âbhaya-
pradânaḥ¹²-paratayâ tṛiṇa-vad=vapâst¹³-â[śêsha-sva]-vîryya-
6 phalaḥ prârtthan-âdhik-ârttha-prad[ân-â]nandita-vidvat-suhṛit-praṇayi-hṛidaya[b*]
pâdachâr=iva sakala-bhuvanamaṇḍal-âbhôga-pram[ô*]da[ḥ] parama-

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¹ pathaka is a technical territorial term, a suitable translation for which has not yet been determin-
ed. It is evidently connected with pathin, patha, 'a path, a road.'
² âhâra is another technical territorial term, a suitable rendering of which has not yet been de-
termined.—In line 25 f. of the Alînâ grant of Dharasêna II. of the year 270 (Ind. Ant. Vol. VII
p. 72), we have the expression Khêṭak-âhâra-vishayê; which seems to shew that the term âhâra is syno-
nymous with vishaya.—There is another term, dharaṇî, which is evidently a synonym of âhâra, since
the Hastavapra dharaṇî is mentioned in line 21 of the Walâ grant of Dharasêna II. of the year 269
(Ind. Ant. Vol. VI. p. 12); while the Hastavapra âhâra is spoken of in a grant of Dharasêna IV. of
the year 326 (id. Vol. I. p. 45).
³ Lat. 22° 44′ N.; Long. 72° 44′ E.
⁴ From the original plates.
⁵ Read skandhâvârât.—In ndhâ, the engraver first formed dhâ, and then corrected it into
ndhâ.
⁶ Read ânurâg-ânurakta. ⁷ Read bhṛita. ⁸ Read mâhêśvara.
⁹ Read dvitîya. ¹⁰ Read mârgga. ¹¹ Read pâlana.
¹² Read pradâna. ¹³ Read apâst.